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Fall 2011 Lunch & Learn
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Osher Lifelong Learning Institute @ Brandeis University (BOLLI)
Lunch & Learn Speakers
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9/13 |
Joan Vennochi Op Ed Columnist Boston Globe |
9/14 | Robert Gilbert Edward W. Brooke Professor Northeastern University "The Tea Party Movement: Tempest in a Teapot or Enduring Force" |
9/15 | Lisa Lynch Dean and Maurice B. Hexter Professor of Social and Economic Policy, Heller School "Social Displacement of the Great Recession" |
| 9/20 | Aubrey Milunsky MD, DSc Professor of Human Genetics, Pediatrics, Pathology and Obstetrics and Gynecology; Director, Center for Human Genetics, Boston University School of Medicine "Your Genes, Your Health" |
9/21 | Susan Curnan Professor of Social Policy & Management, Heller School, Brandeis University "Growing up at Val-Kill with Eleanor Roosevelt: Memories from Eleanor Roosevelt's Kitchen" |
9/22 | Gilad Harel Doctoral candidate in Musicology, Teaching Assistant, and Lecturer, Music Department, Brandeis University "W.A. Mozart - The Struggles of a Genius" |
| 10/4 | Dan Breen Professor of History Newbury College Lecturer, Legal Studies Department Brandeis University "Murder at Noon-Day: the Selfridge/ Austin Affray of 1806" |
10/5 | Brandeis student group Janna Cohen-Rosenthal, Brandeis Sustainability Coordinator and Brandeis students Maya Riser-Kositsky, Linda Li, and Dorian Williams Brandeis Campus Sustainability Award Projects |
10/6 | Joseph Tulchin Visiting Fellow David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies Harvard University “The United States and Latin America: The Future of the Hemispheric Community” |
| 10/11 | Robert Halloran Channel 5 Anchor, sports commentator and author "Sports Journalism: The Long and Short of It" |
10/12 | Stephen Kenney Director of Commonwealth Museum "Exploring Massachusetts History at the Commonwealth Museum" |
10/13 | Christopher Klein, Author of Discovering the Boston Harbor Islands & Mike Dyer, Cartographer, Maps Division of National Geographic Society "Mapping out the Historic Landscape of Boston's Harbor Islands" |
| 10/18 | Ambassador Fernando Paulo de Mello Barreto Filho Consul General of Brazil in Boston "The New Brazil" |
10/19 | Brian McGrory Metro columnist, Boston Globe "The Future of Newspapers" |
10/20 | Open Forum |
| 10/25 | Barbara Martin Alfond Curator of Education Museum of Fine Arts "High Tech, Low Tech, and Person-to-Person: Interpreting Art at the MFA" |
10/26 | Joshua Jacobson Founder and Director of the Zamir Chorale Professor of Music, Northeastern University and Hebrew College "Pushing the Button: Protest Songs in Israel: The Nexus of Music and Politics in contemporary Israel" |
10/27 | TBD |
| 11/1 | Joan Wallace-Benjamin President & Chief Executive Officer, The Home for Little Wanderers, "The Changing Landscape of Child Welfare" |
11/2 | Scott Edmiston Director of Office of the Arts and Instructor of Modern Drama, Brandeis University "A Sense of Direction" |
11/3 | Muriel Gillick, M.D. Clinical Professor of Population Medicine, Harvard Medical School "Once They Had a Country: Two Teenage Refugees in the Second World War" |
| 11/8 | Richard Gaskins Proskauer Chair in Law and Social Welfare, Brandeis University "Louis Brandeis as Educator" |
11/9 | Dr. Susan Windham-Bannister President and CEO of Massachussetts Life Sciences Center "Translating Good Science Into Good Business: The Massachusetts Life Sciences Center" |
11/10 | Eva Bellin, the Myra and Robert Kraft Professor of Arab Politics in the Brandeis Department of Politics and the Crown Center for Middle East Studies "The Arab Spring: Status and Prospects" |
| 11/15 | Judith A. Cowin Former Supreme Judicial Court Justice "Interesting Cases I worked on at the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court" |
11/16 | Margaret Gullette Brandeis Women’s Studies Research Center Scholar in Residence and Writer “Agewise” |
11/17 | James Wolff, MD Associate Professor of International Health, Boston University School of Medicine; Senior Fellow at Management Sciences for Health "Preventing Maternal and Child Deaths Around the World" |
| 11/29 | The Jeweltones A Women's A Capella Group |
11/30 | Mary Crowe The American Songbook Cabaret, Blues, and Jazz |
12/1 | Scene-iors performance |